Sri Rama's great advice to Lakshmana !

In srimad Ramayana , Rama visiting mother Kausalya to seek her blessings to go to forest , is truly touching . Hearing this news , Kausalya falls unconscious. After regaining consciousness , she cries aloud . Though Sri Rama stands without any emotion, brother Lakshmana bursts out with fury .  Fire emanates from his eyes. He looks up at Rama as if to burn the entire world. Then he blasts father Dasratha. He even dubs father a mad man .

Sri Rama hears Lakshmana patiently and then consoles him with wise words . Let us look at this glorious event :

Lakshmana says :

• I  do not like Rama to be influenced by the words of a woman and go to the forest, leaving the prosperous kingdom.
• The king with perverted mind, of old age, one who is outraged by sensual enjoyments and possessed of passion can talk any thing, prompted by Kaikeyi.
• I can not see any offence or cause for blame in Rama that can expel him from the state to the forest.
• I have not seen in this world any person, whether an enemy or an expellee, speaking ill of Rama indirectly.
• Can anybody observing ethicalness, causelessly get rid of a son who is equal to god who is honest, who is self-restrained and who is affectionate even towards adversaries ?.
• Which son, knowing royal usage, can agree to the words of this king who is behaving as though he got childhood again.
• Even before others get to know about this matter, make this dominion your own, with my help.
• Oh, Rama ! While I am standing by your side along with a bow, protecting you who are standing as God of Death, who is capable of doing too much ?.
• Oh, Rama, the best of men! If the city of Ayodhya turns against you, I shall make it desolate of men with sharp arrows.
• I shall kill all those who are siding Bharata ,and are favourable to him. Soft person indeed gets disgraced !
• If our father with an evil mind behaves like our enemy with instigation by Kaikeyi. I shall keep him imprisoned with out personal attachment or if necessary, kill him.
• Even a venerable person is to be punished, if he becomes arrogant, if he does not know good and evil actions and if he takes to a wrong route.
• Oh, Rama, the best of men! On what strength or season has he taken shelter to give away this kingdom belonging to you to Kaikeyi?
• Oh, Rama the chestiser of enemies! Where is the ability for him to give kingdom to Bharata, by making great enmity against you and me.
• Oh, queen! Really, I am devotedly attached to my brother Rama. I am swearing an oath to you by truth by bow, by the act of giving and by the act of sacrifice.
• Oh, queen ! If Rama can enter blazing fire or forest, you make certain that even before, I can enter there.
• I shall alleviate your grief, by showing my valour like the rising sun alleviating darkness. Let Rama and yourself see my valour.

Sri Rama advises Lakshmana :

• Oh, Lakshmana ! I always know your devotion towards me as well as your strength. But now, you are joining with mother in afflicting much trouble to me without looking at my opinion.
• Oh, Lakshmana ! In obtaining the fruit of good works in the world, righteousness utility and free will are being considered. As a wife who is obedient, who is beloved and who is having good sons, good work yields all these three things.
• Only such an action, which is righteous, is to be initiated, leaving that in which wealth, desire and righteousness do not come together. One who is interested in wealth alone becomes indeed fit to be hated in the world. So also the one whose very essence is desire, cannot indeed be considered good.
• When father, who is venerable, a king and old-aged, commands an action either by anger or by extreme joy or by even desire, which right person will not perform it ? Only a person who chooses to be cruel will not do it .
• I cannot avoid fulfilling the father's command completely. For both of us, he is an important person indeed to command us. To mother Kausalya also, he is the husband, the resource person and the personified law.
• While the righteous king Dasaratha is alive and especially when he is following his own righteous path, how  mother Kausalya can go out with me from here leaving the city like other widowed woman?
• Oh, mother the queen! Permit me to go to forest . As Yayati returned to heaven by the power of truth, give me your power of blessings so that I can return here after completion of exile.
• I cannot keep back reputation and glory for the sake of kingdom alone. This cannot unrighteously long for this inferior kingdom.

Rama, the best of men, decided to go to Dandaka forest fearlessly with his prowess, consoled his mother, advised his brother by good thoughts and made hearty circumbulatory salutation to his mother.